Watch The 400 Blows

Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.

Two friends and Jeanne Moreau over twenty years; the New Wave at its most exhilarating.

Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

Bresson's thief in Paris, filmed as hands and gestures, and the ending in the prison.

Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.

Two hours in the life of a singer waiting for a cancer diagnosis, in near real time through Paris.

An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.